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EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings.
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Reduce the number of object class sub-categories #6559

Open aaron-boranian opened 6 years ago

aaron-boranian commented 6 years ago

Furthermore, changing an object type requires changes anywhere the object is referenced since a component is uniquely identified by both the object name and the object type.

Several examples are shown below:

Fans (5) Coils (34) Pumps (5) Pipes (5) Chillers (8) Boilers (2) Heat Pumps (4) Thermal Storage (4) Water Heaters (3) Cooling Towers (4) Fluid Coolers (4) Ground Heat Exchanger (4) Air Terminals (16) Baseboards (5) Low Temperature Radiant (4) Evaporative Coolers (5) Heat Exchangers (5)

Note: This might be easier to implement after changing to a key-value pair input format: http://energyplus.uservoice.com/forums/258860-energyplus/suggestions/9117835-replace-idf-with-a-standardized-data-format-e-g

Migrated from UserVoice feedback from @nealkruis

aaron-boranian commented 6 years ago

Water cooled condenser for DX coils

DX cooling coils currently have options for air-cooled and evaporatively cooled condenser. This would add water cooled as an option. Some users use the water-to-air heat pump coil (Coil:Cooling:WaterToAirHeatPump:EquationFit) to model this, but this cannot be used in every type of system, and is not as convenient to use.

Migrated from UserVoice feedback from @mjwitte